Integrated truth and existential phenomenology : : a Thomistic response to iconic anti-realists in science / / by Robert C. Trundle ; foreword by Peter A. Redpath.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume 283
• VerfasserIn: Trundle, Robert C., 1943-
• TeilnehmendeR: Redpath, Peter A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophy and religion.; Value inquiry book series ; Volume 283.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (193 pages).

Integrated Truth and Existential Phenomenology: A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science relates an existential phenomenology to modal reasoning. By this reasoning, rooted in a consciousness of phenomena in themselves, a Thomistic realism is advanced wherein scientific inquiry yields objective truth and presupposes a causal principle. This principle, as an inferably true modality, strictly implies a first cause. And this cause as a supreme norm, causally created human nature as it ought to be. So with no naturalistic fallacy, a naturalistic ethics is inferred from our psycho-biological nature that also informs art and politics. Politics, as the institutionalization of ethics, is inferable from ethical prescriptions that are as certifiably true as the descriptions of science that inform it.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Existential Phenomenology and Truth in Science -- 2 Realism Rooted in Observational Consciousness -- 3 From Cultural Relativism as a Species of Realism to Realism in Science -- 4 Scientific Realism and Problems of Observation -- 5 The Turn From Realism Roused by a Self-Avowed Realist -- 6 A Return to Scientific Realism -- 7 Scientific Truth Informs Truths of Ethics, Art and Politics -- Bibliography -- Name and Subject Index.